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- Title
Of infiltrators and wild beasts: Nationalism and populism in Benjamin Netanyahu's narrative of the borders.
- Authors
Demata, Massimiliano
- Abstract
This paper addresses Benjamin Netanyahu's border discourse in the context of radical right-wing populism. It discusses how, in the speeches and statements appearing in his official government website, Netanyahu construes groups located spatially outside Israel's borders, mainly terrorists and migrants (the "wild beasts" and the "infiltrators"), as existential threats to Israel. The aim is to prove that, in legitimizing the militarization of borders through "security fences", so that the "other" can be excluded from the nation, Netanyahu uses the same power geometries and discursive strategies, i.e. Proximization (Cap 2013) and dehumanizing metaphors (Santa Ana 1999, Musolff 2015, Taylor 2021), typically used by right-wing populist parties and leaders. By appealing to both populism and certain interpretations of Zionism, his ethnonationalist view of borders is based on the normalization of the discourse of delegitimation and exclusion of those groups considered as a threat to the nation.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; NETANYAHU, Binyamin, 1949-; RIGHT-wing populism; RIGHT-wing extremism; NATIONALISM; POPULIST parties (Politics); RIGHT-wing extremists; FREEDOM of speech; GOVERNMENT websites
- Publication
Journal of Language & Politics, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 3, p438
- ISSN
1569-2159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jlp.23084.dem